Cleaning device



(No Model) H. G. STEWART,

CLEANING DEVICE.

No. 585,346. Patented June 29, 1897.

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HENRY G. STEWVART, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLEANING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,346, dated June 29, 1897.

Application filed December 3, 1895. Serial No. 570,897. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY C. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cleaning Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The ordinary construction of cleaning devices for street, floor, and other purposes consists in a brush provided with ahandle. This, however, cleans quite imperfectly and also causes, when the weather is damp and the ground moist, considerable splashing and does not in any way remove the moisture; also where there is any ice or snow two devices are necessaryone to remove the ice or scrape the solid material and the other to brush.

My invention has for its object to provide in one device a cleaning device capable of removing the solid matter and also brushing the street, pavement, or floor clean and re moving the superficial moisture.

This device consists, essentially, of a frame having two parts at an angle (somewhat greater than a right angle) with each other. One of these parts is a metal part properly shod, so as to remove the solid matter. The other is a grooved frame, the frame being provided with slots in which bolts or other fastening devices may be adjustably secured. In this groove is placeda rubber-faced strip having slots corresponding to the slots in the frame, through which the bolts or fastening devices may pass. This strip may be rubber all the way through, if desired, or it may be faced on both faces with rubber, or have the center formed of rubber, cotton, duck, paper, asbestos, or any other suitable material. The rubber-faced strip is placed in the groove. The bolts or other fastening devices pass through the slots in the frame and through the openings in the strip and are secured in position. As the material wears it may be moved downward, so as to present a fresh edge to the surface to be cleaned. It may also, when one edge becomes worn, be reversed and the opposite its edge placed in operative position. to face, if desired.

I will now describe this device as illustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view. front View. 00 00 of Fig. 2.

A represents the tool in its entirety, composed of two parts a and a. The part a is formed of metal and properly shod to present a surface capable of removing solid materialice, snow, or the likewhile the part a has the groove a and is provided with slots through the solid portion on each side of the groove (1 the slots being lettered a In this groove 0L2 is placed the strip I3,which, as heretofore stated, is formed with rubber faces I) Z), and the interior b may be formed either of rubber or woven fabric, canvas, paper, asbestos, or the like. i

When I use the term rubber I mean the rubber of commerce, which includes rubber and its compounds.

Through the strip B, corresponding to the slot-s a are openings 13 Through the slots 01.3 and openings b are passed suitable bolts secured by nuts b To the frame A is properly secured the socket portion G, adapted to receive a handle. This handle is secured to the frame A at such an angle that when it is held in operative position by the ordinary user the bottom edge of the strip B is parallel to the ground or surface to be cleaned and the part a of the frame A is at right angles to the surface to be cleaned. When the parts are reversed, so as to use the shod portion a of the frame A, it also is at a proper angle to the surface to be cleaned.

I have found this device in practice very desirable and useful.

The strip B is adjustable upand down, so as to present a fresh wearing-surface constantly to the surface to be cleaned. It may also be reversed and the upper edge turned so as to be the bottom edge. It may also be turned about, so as to present the rear face when one side of the bottom edge of the rubber is worn away. This arrangement enables me to clean and remove the superficial mois- It may also be turned face Fig. 2 is a Fig. 3 is a section on the line ture very readily from the surface to be cleaned, and is especially adapted for the cleaning of asphalt streets. Where there are large quantities of solid material-such as ice, snow, or the likeI first make a superficial cleaning With a portion a of the frame A, and subsequently complete the cleaning by using the portion a, containing the strip B. Further and beyond this, in using either the portion a or the portion a of the frame A the other portion forms a guard to prevent the moisture or dirt'passing back and splashing.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A cleaning device consisting of the combination of an L-shaped metallic strip the two parts whereof are at an obtuse angle to each other, with another L-shaped strip the two parts whereof are at the same obtuse angle to each other, one part of one strip being of substantially equal width with, and the other part thereof being of greater width than, the corresponding parts of the other strip, the first-named strip being adapted to be applied to the inside of the last-named strip, the parts of unequal width abutting against each other and secured together, and the longer part projecting to form a scraper, the parts of substantially equal Width being separated to form a groove, and a rubber-faced strip remot'ably and vertically adjustably secured in the grooved portion of the frame.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY C. STEWART.

Witnesses:

FRANK S. BUSSER, CAROL H. DESHONG. 

